londondev45

how?

I want this

A message of appreciation, you sound very cool. I'd love to have seen this when I was a young sega mega drive obsessive

Well said

I guess some kind of large rig, that could be lifted on to site and literally print the whole house there and then.

Should read 'if automation DOES...'

Most developers can't actually code, once the motor skills has been assumed it is nothing but brute intelligence.. and then you can become a lead/architect... It takes 10 years to become good enough. I feel pretty safe ;)

Interesting points raidicy, as an engineer I would have similar requirements and really don't like seeding control to third party products :) But then, a no-code almost non techie type, might just want to get something working

We used it for a production project which I inherited.

Honestly I'm not a bit fan of anything Orm like, as such there is some magic, I believe out of the box it will literally just create tables and keys for you.

For what it is, it's very fast for prototyping things out.

I would personally just use the in built jsonb functionality of postgres and build out my own repositories. Saves confusion from all of the magic.

My 2 pence

I fundamentally disagree with this article. SQL is arguably the most important language in a developers toolbox. The attempts to isolate and replace it's complexity through ORMs and nosql implementations has never resulted in a viable replacement.

Like mathematical syntax fits mathematical logic. So SQL matches data retrieval. Let's stop trying to replace it just because it's old. SQL is amazing.

thanks bachbach.. it requires a level of self discipline to fly against the societal movement towards the work / spend continuum..

Microsoft has embraced Github with it's recent .Net core development, they are one of the largest contributors with some incredible cross platform dev tooling. C# is a pleasure and visual studio code is an excellent, extensible coding tool.

Go forth Microsoft, the standard bashing in these communities is unjust.

Learn ES6 first, it will make learning the framework very easy. Otherwise you will never know the vanilla JavaScript from the React / JSX syntax.

Memory management, a closer connection to the compiler, ability to write embedded apps.

C#, JavaScript, Python.

Honestly, i can't see them going anywhere, especially Python.

Might as well learn Clojure, you have ten years..

C seems to not be going anywhere ever. Will there be that many new technologies??

Wise words Mark. I'm going to carry on learning. I think it makes me a better developer in general, and I like the complexity and history.

That's excellent advice! With so much experience, do you think I would be crazy attempting to move. Perhaps I should look into a newer low level language.

I notice there's a lot of finance work in C++. Do you expect this trend to continue?

Do companies hire people without experience in a specific language?